This is Hardcore isn't my fvery avourite Pulp song (that accolade probably belongs to one of Underwear, Es and Whizz, A Little Soul or Help the Aged) but the video is great. I love the Hitchcockian vibe - and the comment on exploitation, desire and media.
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Big, big Pulp fan here. Near impossilbe to pick a favourite as there are just too many great songs. This would probably make it into my top 10 though.
It's funny-we don't really like the same sort of romances (you couldn't pay me enough to finish a Charlotte Lamb! Or virtually any other "contemporary" 70s romance novel for that matter) but our musical tastes certainly do align beautifully. Which just goes to show...well, I don't know what the hell it goes to show beyond the fact that we both possess exquisite taste in music ;-)
Marie-Therese - but what romance novels do you like? Surely we must share some common ground! I saw Pulp live many years ago in Elgin Forest - an amazing concert.
Sorry, Tumperkin, didn't mean to ignore you! Just saw your reply now.
I'm one of what I think may be a vanishing breed among contemporary romance readers: a lover of trad Regencies, particularly those that are essentially tart, dry, even cynical, social comedies with just a dollop of courting and canoodling thrown in for good measure. Think Heyer at her least sentimental (I loathe 'A Civil Contract' and find it a nearly complete failure but adore 'Cotillion'), Clare Darcy, Marion Chesney, Joan Smith, Jane Ashford and Barbara Metzger and you have some idea of the sort of romance I enjoy most. Among contemporary writers of this type, I like Janet Mullaney and Sheila Cobb South.
I think Mary Stewart was the bee's knees and I like Barbara Michaels quite a bit too. Although, given how little part love relationships play in much of their work, I'm not entirely certain either's truly a romance novelist.
I can do "angst" but it has to be an exceptional writer and an original situation for me to buy into it without rolling my eyes. I like Laura Kinsale (a lot!), Mary Balogh fairly often although not consistently, Carla Kelly when she's not allowing her heroes to indulge pitiable martyr complexes and laying on the emo thicker than an 80s teenager obsessed with The Cure ('One Good Turn' may be the only romance that has ever made me cry but I've strongly disliked her latest books), Teresa Medeiros, Patricia Gaffney (not THATH though; sexual coercion of any kind, like the vigilantism mentioned by you in another recent post, is a hard-line, irredeemably unheroic action for me) and sometimes Judith Ivory. (A recent reread of most of Ivory's books found me a lot less enchanted with her than I was when I first encountered her a decade or so ago. I found I just couldn't get over the sheer giggle-worthy god-awfulness of much of her prose.)
Among these last few, I guess there are a couple of likes we do share. But I still suspect our record collections are a better match than our libraries! ;-)
Good gracious! I've posted a novel! Well, I guess no one will ever accuse me of stinting on particulars.
Anyway, sorry about that!
I knew we'd have SOME common ground. I cut my young teenage romance teeth on Marion Chesney. I LOVED the Six Sisters series with a passion. I think Deirdre and Desire was possibly the first Regency romance I read. I re-read one recently and the prose was unpleasingly flat but the enjoyment at the time was intense.
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